Human rights, suffering, and aesthetics in political prison literature /

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This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while examining the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wu, Yenna, Livescu, Simona, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2011.
Temas:
Political prisoners > Civil rights.
Prisoners' writings > History and criticism.
Prisonniers politiques > Droits.
Écrits de prisonniers > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Political prisoners > Civil rights
Prisoners' writings
Politischer Gefangener.
Menschenrecht.
Motiv.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Yenna Wu
  • Introduction / Yenna Wu
  • Reviving muted voices : rhizomatous forces in political prison literature / Yenna Wu
  • Surviving traumatic captivity, arriving at wisdom : an aesthetics of resistance in Chinese prison camp memoir / Yenna Wu
  • The argument from silence : Morocco's Truth Commission and women political prisoners / Susan Slyomovics
  • The persistence of spectacle in PRC modes of punishing criminality and deviance / Philip F. Williams
  • The cocoons of language : torture, voice, event / R. Shareah Taleghani
  • A primer for the politics and literature of resistance : apparitional subjectivity in The collective autobiography of the New York 21 / Ramsey Scott
  • Remembering pain in Uruguay : what memories mean in Carlos Liscano's Truck of fools / Eugenio Di Stefano
  • Deviating from the norm? Two easts testify to a prison aesthetics of happiness / Simona Livescu.

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